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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






2. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






3. What a story or play is about.






4. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






5. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






6. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






7. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






8. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






9. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






10. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






11. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






12. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






13. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






14. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






15. The time and place of a story or play.






16. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






17. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






18. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






19. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






20. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






21. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






22. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






23. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






24. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






25. A short saying with a moral.






26. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






27. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






28. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






29. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






30. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






31. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






32. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






33. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






34. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






35. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






36. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






37. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






38. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






39. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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40. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






41. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






42. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






43. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






44. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






45. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






46. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






47. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






48. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






49. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






50. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.